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The housing market has sunk and the financial market is on the verge of collapse, jobs are scares, and we have an administration racing to see how fast they can bankrupt us, these are strange days indeed. However, people still want to own homes, people still want to invest and be prosperous, so how do we do that when banks arent lending and we will soon be handing all our profits over to the government?

One answer is that if you plan to buy a home to live there and raise a family there, maybe stay there for ten years or more, and your life is stable in that sense, its okay for those people to buy a home, those with a long term plan. Keeping in mind that your home will probable loose value for several years, but if you're there for the long term you can ride out the storm.

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City Group had a pretty good bead on things to come. The housing numbers are not good. They are the lowest they have been since 1995. "The existing home sales, completed transactions including single family, town homes, condominiums, and co-ops dropped 27.2 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 3.83 million units in July from a downwardly revised 5.26 million in June, and are 25.5 percent below the 5.14 million unit level in July 2009."

We all thought the tax credit would help, but it made things worse. Lets all hope the numbers pick up quickly and the government makes it a little bit easier to hire people and kick start the economy.

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I love technology, a lot of people do, but what are our top picks? The reigning champion is Apple, for quite a while now. I guess if youre leading the pack you got to stay ahead of the pack, and Steve Jobs is doing a great job of it. Since the introduction of the iPhone mobile devices havent been the same. Apple has defined the industry. Other companies make fine devices, but they are trying to keep up with Apple, theyre not going their own way, they are following Apple.

The real estate industry seems to be in agreement because its the iPhone that most real estate agents use for their mobile needs. There are more and more apps for real estate agents and for the industry as a whole. Its amazing, if you want to know anything, any type of information at all, you have it right in your hand. How fun!

Of course Apple offers no shortage of devices. They seem to out do themselves every time they turn around. The iPad is another industry standard setter. Now other companies are following their lead, yet again. Even their software that comes as standard gear on their computers is setting standards. You are now a whole production studio if you own an iMac. How cool is that, (Thats rhetorical of course)?

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Every once in a while technology jumps forward and we all get to look on with chagrined amazement. Back in the 80s Star Wars gave us a glimpse into the future and we were all simply amazed. Dumb struck, we all looked at the screen with hopes of our own space ship in the near future, at least I did anyway. Apple Corporation has certainly given us a technological jump or two in the last decade. Looking at the iPhone and iPad, and even the iMac, it really feels as though we are in the new millennium, but our cars still have wheels. No floating around for us yet.

Well, one of those technology jumps forward is here. Its not ready for the public as of yet, but wow, its cool looking. I think it has a little ways to go, but it looks like well be floating around before you know it. This is almost better than one of those futurist sci-fi movies. The movements are what make this thing so cool. It looks like magic.

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What makes the Eagles so special; also, a strong marketing force aligned with an iconic and strong Colorado presence makes this a dynamic partnership.

Kevin McGlue: I am Kevin McGlue the voice of the Colorado Eagles we are here at the beautiful Budweiser Event center in Loveland Colorado. To give you a better idea what the Colorado Eagles are all about no better man to do that than Eagles captain Riley Nelson and Riley when you think about a special place to play, what is it that makes the Eagles so special?

Riley Nelson: Well I think its the support that community gives us you know night in and night out Monday, Wednesday; Saturday it doesnt matter that here to cheer us on and expect to win.

Kevin McGlue: 267 consecutive sale outs here, thats a minor league record what is that the fans provide to you on the ice?

Riley Nelson: Well they, you know they give you that extra tracker and they know they can tell when we are down a little bit, they get on and they get up on the field and gives us a little push.

Kevin McGlue: Two championships, three governor's cups high expectations here how do you fulfill them each and every year?

Riley Nelson: Well you know you put the trust in the coaching staff to bring in competitive players that want to be here and want to win every year and so far we have done that and we are looking to do it again.

Kevin McGlue: That is Eagles captain Riley Nelson 500 points with the Colorado Eagles and that is a closer look at what makes Eagles so special both on and off the ice?

Doug Lindstrom: Northern Colorado needed this affiliation from Metro Brokers point of view just to be affiliated with something as strong and recognized as the Colorado Eagles, so that we can have more signs, for sales signs, more presence that the consumer will feel more comfortable in doing business with us.

Tom Guest: This is a strong marketing force in Northern Colorado and we feel by aligning ourselves with this. We have five to 6000 people coming to these games and seen our Metro Broker logo, seen Metro Broker exposure and these are potential log clients where each and every one of us not only that but they have a radio presence, they have a TV presence and this is a very strong message to Northern Colorado.

Ike Isenhart: We have not had the representation that we wanted and we feel that this is a very viable way to do that, partnering with Eagles and having such a presence up here in beautiful event center.

Kevin McGlue: Now joined by the President, General Manager and head coach of the Colorado Eagles Mr. Chris Stewart, coach you won CHL championships you have hung two of those banners here at the Budweiser event center, but what is it that makes this building this team, this community special?

Chris Stewart: Well I think it comes down at the clients that we have and thats people coming to the stand we have got greats fans here, lot of energy and you really cant beat the synergy we have in this building, its great place to be the home team.

Kevin McGlue: On and off the ice the expectations year in and year out is to win and to be winner put a winner both on the ice, in the stands and everything involved with this team, how do you try to make that happen?

Chris Stewart: Well I think that was established early Kevin we started off in our first year with that golden mind that you know we said automatically just because we are in our first year doesnt even won a championship you know it took us to our second year to win our first championship but thats really our goal every year, as we want to win a championship we have players that are capable of doing that and we put our effort forth every year with that mind that we want to win a championship.

Kevin McGlue: Give us a quick idea as to what this team at least in theory what you would like to see will look like at here night in and night out?

Chris Stewart: Well I am certainly been into speed and skill, I love that the speed on the ice, but I want to see that aggressiveness involved all we need a big top hockey club and a team is going to make the other team pay the price every single night. We are going to be in aggressive path, we are going to dictate the play, we are going to score a lot of goals.

Interviewer: Eagles president general manager and three times CHL champion head coach Chris Stewart.

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